At a cramped classroom in Heze city, 87 students pack into their desks. The room is so full, students brim to the blackboard, with the only visible space two small aisles that allow them to escape for recess.
Zheng Dexing died on March 9, 2015. The college student from Henan Province committed suicide after accumulating loans worth 589,500 yuan (91,000 U.S. dollars) to pay for his gambling addiction.
Hong Kong’s unhealthy education system has been blamed for the recent series of student suicides that rocked the community.
Schools will receive better student-counselling support from a team of psychologists provided by the government after four pupils committed suicide in five days.
The Chinese University is to step up its counselling service under emergency measures worked out after the institution lost another of its students to suicide over the weekend.
Education experts are pressing the case for online learning programs, to improve traditional classroom teaching by helping students to absorb and retain course materials more readily.
South African Minister of Higher Education and Training Blade Nzimande on Monday urged university students to end protests and return to class.
Budget increases to HK$75 billion but as a percentage of total government expenditure has dropped from 24.5 per cent in 2005 to 21.5 per cent, says Ip Kin-yuen
Two students at India's prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) have surrendered before police in New Delhi, officials said Wednesday.
Young Chinese planning to study in the United States are being advised to seek alternatives to the Scholastic Assessment Test, as a recent overhaul has made it more challenging for non-English speakers.
The students at India's prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi are at war with the government. The confrontation started all of a sudden after Indian police arrested the student unions' president Kanhaiya Kumar on charges of sedition and declaring him "anti-national."
A Pakistani university attacked last month by the Taliban reopened on Monday guarded by hundreds of police, highlighting a pervasive atmosphere of fear after the Islamist group vowed more strikes on schools.
At least 13 students drowned when swimming off a beach in the western Indian state of Maharashtra on Monday, while several others remained missing, said police.
All kindergartens, primary schools and special schools are suspended today amid the big freeze, with about 510,000 children given an unprecedented cold- day leave.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said on Wednesday that a free, quality kindergarten-education policy will be implemented from the 2017-18 school year.
On a summer day in 2010, 18-year-old Jane Yu quick-stepped through the cool morning wind in Iowa state, central U.S., a backpack over her shoulder. She was a freshman of the Iowa State University.
Chinese universities are "rising through the ranks" quickly, as top universities in China continue to strive for standards of excellence, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford Andrew Hamilton said recently in an interview with Xinhua。
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